Prof Dragan Milinkovic Fimon is an eminent university professor, producer, drama writer and director with an admirably rich career. He graduated from the Belgrade Drama School- Production department in 1978, and won his Master’s degree at the Belgrade Faculty of Philology – Sociology of Literature department. Following scientific research in Paris (Cultural Centre George Pompidou) and London (British Film Institute), he completed his PhD studies at the University of London- South Slavonic Studies Department and won his PhD with the thesis of Possibilities of filming a novel. He carried out post-PhD researches in Paris, Moscow, Seoul, London and Montreal.

He was the Art director of the National Ballet “Kolo” from Belgrade, a freelance producer and journalist for electronic media, as well as an accredited correspondent for independent media in London. He has also been a visiting professor at the Academy of Drama Arts in Belgrade and at the London University with many academic assignments at several world-wide important universities (Cairo, Barcelona, Paris, Montreal, Moscow, Nairobi, Prague, Turin, Sarajevo, Istanbul, Seoul, Skopje). He will be focusing on the career of Dir. Emir Kusturica.

Only 80 seats for the Masterclass

Prof Lydia Trisovic is a master makeup artist and a teacher that has a decorated career in teaching and working in the industry. She works with world renowned universities of the world including South Eastern Europe Cinema School (SEECs) to train industry professionals, her areas of expertise expands form stage to cinema screen.

Only 75 seats for the Masterclass

Venue: Moonstone and Amethyst Halls, Hilton Colombo, Sir Chittampalam A Gardiner Mawatha, Colombo
on the 7th November
from 10am to 1pm

Mr. Alby James

Mr. Alby James was former Head of Development for EON Productions ( the Production house of the Bond Movies) and was responsible for producing the slate of projects for EON to produce with Columbia Pictures. He now works as an independent and consultant producer helping to develop movie ideas but also does training for screenwriters, story editors, producers and developers to help them develop their movie ideas. In the last few years he has also led on the development on several new drama series and serials for the SABC. He is also a judge and mentor for the script station at the Berlinale, Talent Campus and a jury panel member for the World Cinema Fund.

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Paolo Bertolin is a producer, consultant and festival organizer who has been involved with funding bodies and film markets in the assessment of film projects all over Asia. He has produced films in South and South East Asia, including two Berlinale 2015 competition entries, the Vietnamese feature BIG FATHER, SMALL FATHER AND OTHER STORIES and the Indian short CHITRASHALA. He has advised such funding bodies as the Doha Film Institute and the Media Development Authority of Singapore and took part in judging processes in Turkey, India, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, etc. In the festival field, he collaborated with such prestigious international events as the Venice International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, JioMAMI-Mumbai Film Festival, Beijing International Film Festival, etc.